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[blacktulip]

is this usual practice for balancing a factory crankshaft? i took my engine apart today and noticed these chunks and grinds missing.

 

Edited by blacktulip, 19 April 2015 - 05:43 PM.

[nicklouse]

Yep looks normal to me.

[Blatherskite]

That cut web in the top pic looks rather brutal to me. The grinder has heated the web (blue), and there are ragged edges that, IMHO should be dressed a bit. Not sure I'd go back there.

[blacktulip]

i think this was done at point of manufacture, i havent taken it anywhere for this to be done lol.

[peter-b]

Maybe the crank was done at 4:30 friday arvo and the balancing guy Had a hot date lined up. Looks a bit rushed.

[Spider]

As the other guys have said, yes. This was how they clamped the crank for some of the machining operations.

[Stu1961]

Maybe the crank was done at 4:30 friday arvo and the balancing guy Had a hot date lined up. Looks a bit rushed.

Lived most of my life within a stones throw of the Longbridge plant and knew a lot of folk that worked there this sort of thing was common place, though was not always the fault of the blokes on the various production lines, fitting incorrect thrust washer because they hadn't got the right ones especially in the later years or painting shells that were already starting to rust, I can still picture in my mind the primed shells stacked up in racks along the A38 Bristol Road 

[peter-b]

I worked in Rover dealership a while back. We got a tdi towed in with seized engine at only 50 klms on it.
Number one main journal hadn't been drilled for oil way.

[Spider]

I worked in Rover dealership a while back. We got a tdi towed in with seized engine at only 50 klms on it.
Number one main journal hadn't been drilled for oil way.

 

 

Oooppsss,,,,,,,,

[peter-b]

They gave the bloke an old SD1 Rover to drive for about a month while they shipped a new motor from UK. I would have told them to stick the SD1 in their rear carpark, asked for my money back and bought a Landcruiser.

[jaydee]

If this gonna end up in any form of performance engine i'd be more worried by the lack of fillet radius.

[Carlos W]

I've got one in my garage that looks identical. 

 

I wondered the same thing

[Dusky]

Mine is the same too ;)